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“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“My mother is a fish.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ” Albert Camus, The Stranger
“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“To describe my mother would be to write about a storm in its perfect power.” Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danc'd, and under that was I born.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“You take somebody's mother, all they want to hear about is what a hotshot their son is.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor of the couch of the goddesses.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?” James Joyce, Ulysses
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: you've already got a mom.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon...” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1)
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Looking for Alaska (1)
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